Slavery Reparations: A Call For Justice
The supreme court of 1980 ordered the federal government to pay Native American Tribes $122 million dollars to compensate for the slaughter and illegal seizure of tribal lands in 1877; Shortly after, the congress of 1988 then consented to the payment of $1.2 billion dollars to Japanese-American citizens who had been held captive at the prison camps during WW2 (Costly, Andrew). African Americans haven’t been compensated for their enslavement until recently, President John Degioia of Georgetown University took a lead to come to terms with their involvement with the merchandise and enslavement of Africans. President Degioia is offering financial help in education and other reparations administered to the …show more content…
During those years slaves endured many forms of mistreatment; including many forms of physical abuse, mental abuse, separation from families and communities, and many other forms of mutilations. Slaves took on the jobs of common household chores, plantation upkeep, building railroads, the U.S. capitol building, the White House, Wall street, etc. Most of the U.S. economy was built upon the success of the cotton, tobacco, and sugar industries as the nation was just emerging. Also many slaves fought in the revolution assisting in obtaining freedom for the entire nation. The slave owners as well as the U.S. benefitted off of them. Till this day, there are some individuals (like J.P. Morgan or Georgetown University) that still benefit from slavery. The descendants of former slaves should be given reparations because their ancestors were brought here against their will, forced to work, and for all of the injustices that went along with the enslavement. If it weren’t for the enslavement of the Africans, America wouldn’t have flourished to the country it is today. If slaves had control over their own profit then they would have something to pass down to future generations. But since this wasn’t the case, former slaves had to start from the bottom up and grow from
The supreme court of 1980 ordered the federal government to pay Native American Tribes $122 million dollars to compensate for the slaughter and illegal seizure of tribal lands in 1877; Shortly after, the congress of 1988 then consented to the payment of $1.2 billion dollars to Japanese-American citizens who had been held captive at the prison camps during WW2 (Costly, Andrew). African Americans haven’t been compensated for their enslavement until recently, President John Degioia of Georgetown University took a lead to come to terms with their involvement with the merchandise and enslavement of Africans. President Degioia is offering financial help in education and other reparations administered to the …show more content…
During those years slaves endured many forms of mistreatment; including many forms of physical abuse, mental abuse, separation from families and communities, and many other forms of mutilations. Slaves took on the jobs of common household chores, plantation upkeep, building railroads, the U.S. capitol building, the White House, Wall street, etc. Most of the U.S. economy was built upon the success of the cotton, tobacco, and sugar industries as the nation was just emerging. Also many slaves fought in the revolution assisting in obtaining freedom for the entire nation. The slave owners as well as the U.S. benefitted off of them. Till this day, there are some individuals (like J.P. Morgan or Georgetown University) that still benefit from slavery. The descendants of former slaves should be given reparations because their ancestors were brought here against their will, forced to work, and for all of the injustices that went along with the enslavement. If it weren’t for the enslavement of the Africans, America wouldn’t have flourished to the country it is today. If slaves had control over their own profit then they would have something to pass down to future generations. But since this wasn’t the case, former slaves had to start from the bottom up and grow from